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    Mutineer
    Mutineer
    Mutineer
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    Mutineer

    By Robert Shea

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateApr 25, 2011
    Mutineer
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    Robert Shea

    Robert Joseph Shea was an American novelist and former journalist best known as co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the science fantasy trilogy Illuminatus! (Wikipedia)

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      Mutineer - Robert Shea

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      Title: Mutineer

      Author: Robert J. Shea

      Release Date: June 21, 2009 [EBook #29196]

      Language: English

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      MUTINEER

      By ROBERT J. SHEA

      For every weapon there was a defense, but not against the deadliest weapon—man himself!

      Raging, Trooper Lane hovered three thousand feet above Tammany Square.

      The cool cybrain surgically implanted in him was working on the problem. But Lane had no more patience. They'd sweat, he thought, hating the chill air-currents that threw his hovering body this way and that. He glared down at the three towers bordering on the Square. He spat, and watched the little white speck fall, fall. Lock me up in barracks. All I wanted was a little time off. Did I fight in Chi for them? Damn right I did. Just a little time off, so I shouldn't blow my top. Now the lid's gone.

      He was going over all their heads. He'd bowled those city cops over like paper dolls, back at the Armory. The black dog was on Lane's back. Old Mayor himself was going to hear about it.

      Why not? Ain't old Mayor the CinC of the Newyork Troopers?

      The humming paragrav-paks embedded beneath his shoulder blades held him motionless above Newyork's three administrative towers. Tammany Hall. Mayor's Palace. Court House. Lane cursed his stupidity. He hadn't found out which one was which ahead of time. They keep Troopers in the Armory and teach them how to fight. They don't teach them about their own city, that they'll be fighting for. There's no time. From seven years old up, Troopers have

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